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The Kerr effect in the vicinity of the transition from the isotropic to smectic a phase. / Polushin, S. G.; Rogozhin, V. B.; Ryumtsev, E. I.; Lezov, A. V.

In: Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 80, No. 7, 01.07.2006, p. 1016-1020.

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title = "The Kerr effect in the vicinity of the transition from the isotropic to smectic a phase",
abstract = "The equilibrium electrooptical effect in the isotropic phase of seven liquid crystalline substances (4-n-decyloxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl, carbosilane dendrimer of the fourth generation with cyanobiphenyl terminal fragments, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth members of the homologous series of 4-n-acylphenylene 4′-n-alkoxybenzoates) was studied. The smectic A phases were found to exhibit weaker divergence of the Kerr constant in the vicinity of the T c isotropic melt-liquid crystal phase transition temperature compared with the nematic phases. The difference between T c and the temperature T*of the virtual second-order phase transition varied from 3.2 to 19.0 K for the smectic A phases, which substantially exceeded the value (T c-T*) ≤ 1 K for the nematic phases. A theory of the electrooptical properties of isotropic melts in the vicinity of the T c temperature of the phase transition from the isotropic to smectic A phase is developed. An equation relating the T c-T*difference to the phenomenological coefficients of the expansion of the Helmholtz energy of an isotropic melt into a series in powers of the coordination and orientational order parameters is obtained.",
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AU - Lezov, A. V.

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N2 - The equilibrium electrooptical effect in the isotropic phase of seven liquid crystalline substances (4-n-decyloxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl, carbosilane dendrimer of the fourth generation with cyanobiphenyl terminal fragments, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth members of the homologous series of 4-n-acylphenylene 4′-n-alkoxybenzoates) was studied. The smectic A phases were found to exhibit weaker divergence of the Kerr constant in the vicinity of the T c isotropic melt-liquid crystal phase transition temperature compared with the nematic phases. The difference between T c and the temperature T*of the virtual second-order phase transition varied from 3.2 to 19.0 K for the smectic A phases, which substantially exceeded the value (T c-T*) ≤ 1 K for the nematic phases. A theory of the electrooptical properties of isotropic melts in the vicinity of the T c temperature of the phase transition from the isotropic to smectic A phase is developed. An equation relating the T c-T*difference to the phenomenological coefficients of the expansion of the Helmholtz energy of an isotropic melt into a series in powers of the coordination and orientational order parameters is obtained.

AB - The equilibrium electrooptical effect in the isotropic phase of seven liquid crystalline substances (4-n-decyloxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl, carbosilane dendrimer of the fourth generation with cyanobiphenyl terminal fragments, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth members of the homologous series of 4-n-acylphenylene 4′-n-alkoxybenzoates) was studied. The smectic A phases were found to exhibit weaker divergence of the Kerr constant in the vicinity of the T c isotropic melt-liquid crystal phase transition temperature compared with the nematic phases. The difference between T c and the temperature T*of the virtual second-order phase transition varied from 3.2 to 19.0 K for the smectic A phases, which substantially exceeded the value (T c-T*) ≤ 1 K for the nematic phases. A theory of the electrooptical properties of isotropic melts in the vicinity of the T c temperature of the phase transition from the isotropic to smectic A phase is developed. An equation relating the T c-T*difference to the phenomenological coefficients of the expansion of the Helmholtz energy of an isotropic melt into a series in powers of the coordination and orientational order parameters is obtained.

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